The Influence of Default Options in Advance Directives

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Conditions studied: Advance Care Planning

In brief

The investigators aim to assess the influence of default options in advance directives on older patients selections of life- extending therapies and to determine whether alerting patients to the spectrum of possible default options in advance directives influences their selections of life-extending therapies by manipulating the default options of advance directives given to patients in with severe respiratory disease

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01346176

Run by

University of Pennsylvania

People needed

132

Starts

2010-04-01

Expected to finish

2012-08-01

Last updated by the study team

2016-02-03

Who can join

Age: 50 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), non-small-cell lung cancer, or other interstitial or fibrotic lung disease
• Neither listed for nor considering solid organ transplantation
• Anticipated survival of less than 2 years
• Must be fluent and literate in English

You may not qualify if…

• Diagnosis of small-cell lung cancer or other respiratory diseases for which life extending medical therapies may be available

Where it is running

• University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

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